Alright, alright XD, You people just dont give up on me do you :). I'll try for you guys. plus, the killing me kind was motivation. **points at you with a grin**
Chapter three: Hedwig
He was speechless, he could do nothing but stare in disbelief. His face started to heat up, his eyes stung, and finally his nose hurt so bad that he finally let spoke. "Hedwig?!" but it didn't come out intelligible at all. It sounded like a great shuddering sob, just a garbled noise, but that was alright. No one was there to watch him break down.
His knees felt weak, and he feared that if he collaspe, his hallucination would collaspe with him, so he slowly sank to his knee's so as not to jostle her. "I'm so sorry," he blubbered. or maby he should just say that everything he tried to tell her was blubbering more unintelligible noises, more animalitic in quality, and every now and again he would let loose a high pitched keen of grief; he'd catch himself and take a deep breathe, but that just made him gasp for air and cry harder.
He dared not touch her pearly white feathers, he didn't want proof tht he had finally gone insane.
A couple more minutes went by and he continued to stare at her and tried to get his uncontrollable wails under control. but that was the whole point of them being uncontrollable.
Hedwig hooted softly, turning her head this way and that. She stretched up, and he could feel her claws dig into his shoulder slightly, but it didn't seem enough to convince him that she was real. So she did the only logical thing, she did what she always did when Harry was ignoring her, or when she wanted to show affection, she nipped hi nose.
Harry jerked his head sideways away from her beak, his hand reached up and he oftly touched his nose, at first he thought the wetness was snot, but when he pulled his hand back and looked his fingertip had blood smeared across the tip.
"But how?"
Hedwig hooted and cooed again, preening under his renewed attention.
"It's not possible...its just like magic...oh my-I am so stupid! Of course, that's it! Magic! But...but that would mean...I couldn't have possibly...or maybe..." Hedwig gave Harry an idignant look, couldn't he see that she was right in front of him and she deserved a good back scratch after she saved his life and she had chosen to come back and follow him and...Everything else! She nipped his fingers lightly, butting her wing against the side of his head. "Oh, sorry, Hed..." and finally Harry jut continued to pet her, because honestly it was magic, magic so advanced and complex that he would probably never understand it.